https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/9e066ff4-85ce-44ce-a7ce-fc7bc395c9dd On this second day of the STS-77 mission, the flight crew, Cmdr. John H. Casper, Pilot Curtis L. Brown, Jr., and Mission Specialists Andrew S.W. Thomas, Ph.D., Daniel W. Bursch, Mario Runco, Jr., and Marc Garneau, Ph.D., are seen deploying the Spartan satellite for its 24 hour free flight away from Endeavour to test new inflatable antenna technology. The inflation procedure begins as the shuttle and antenna pass over New Mexico, Southern California, the Grand Canyon, Appalachian Mountains, and coast of Virginia. The inflation takes about 5 minutes, bringing the antenna to its full size of 90 feet by 50 feet. After an hour and a half, the antenna was to be jettisoned from the Spartan. May 1996 Mirrored from YouTube: https://youtu.be/jSP7WGupX8o Original channel: NASA STI Program Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:35:09 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/ec5edb1e-3795-4978-be4f-c67e98fbc992.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/9e066ff4-85ce-44ce-a7ce-fc7bc395c9dd All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.